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Petertherock · « **on:** April 29, 2014, 06:23:32 AM »

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Lightning Strikes Saint Paul Cathedral During Canonizations

Edit: this is the historic Cathedral overlooking St. Paul from the heights, across the street from the James J. Hill Mansion. The photo was taken yesterday as the canonizations were taking place in Rome.

ggreg · « **Reply #1 on:** April 29, 2014, 06:37:38 AM »

So the striking by lighting, during a rainstorm, of a cathedral built by English protestants in a city 1000 miles away from Rome, is supposed to be some kind of "Divine Warning" about a canonisation process of a Polish and Italian Pope which was already over when the lighting struck?

I'm struggling to see the significance, I must admit.

Why not explain again how sheep's bladders may be used in the prevention of earthquakes.

Mithrandylan · « **Reply #2 on:** April 29, 2014, 08:41:38 AM »

The canonizations took place about three AM our time. I can guarantee you the sky didn't look like that at three AM. That picture was not taken during the canonizations. Or, if it was, at the very tail end of them, ~8 AM or so-- did the canonizations last that long? I doubt it.

It was a miserable day, though. And continues to be. Haven't seen the sun since Saturday afternoon.

AlligatorDicax · « **Reply #3 on:** April 29, 2014, 02:03:06 PM »

Quote from: Petertherock (Apr 29, 2014, 7:23 am)

Lightning Strikes Saint Paul Cathedral During Canonizations
Edit: this is the historic Cathedral overlooking St. Paul from the heights [...]

Ya, in Min-ne-sō'-tah.

Quote from: ggreg (Apr 29, 2014, 7:37 am)

So the striking by lighting, during a rainstorm, of a cathedral built by English protestants in a city 1000 miles away from Rome [....]

Au contraire!  It was indeed built by Roman Catholics, but in the city originally settled with the poetic name "Pig's Eye", thus 4900 miles away from Rome.

Quite, um, remarkable, isn't it, that someone had such a quick reaction-time to be able to capture a photograph of a lightning bolt? The sky looks much too bright to allow it to be reliably captured by a time exposure (as done at night outside St. Peter's Basilica in the last year of so). The brightness of the sky looks much too even for me to believe that it's really a night sky that was illuminated only by the flash of lightning. It's very sloppily framed, suggesting to me that there wasn't much preparation for the photo at all.

Quote from: Mithrandylan (Apr 29, 2014, 9:41 am)

I can guarantee you the sky didn't look like that at three AM.

Ah! 3 a.m. Central Daylight Time (GMT/UTC -5) in St. Paul, vs. 10 a.m. GMT/UTC +2 (summer-Central European Time already?) at the beginning of the ceremony in Rome. And I see that the sunrise in St. Paul is now a trifle after 6 a.m. CDT.